If you were ever in a scenario where you had to fight to the death for survival, the best way to ensure another day would be to draw back on your memories of movies where people are forced to fight to the death. What kind of weapons did they use? Was a lot of cardio involved? Should you make a witty remark every time you off someone or is that in poor taste? Your favorite survival movie says a lot about you. Are you the kind of person that’s OK with running people over with a car? Or would you prefer to do your killing with office equipment? Whatever your preference, you’re guaranteed to love these films about people fighting to the death.

Out of all the moves where people have to fight to the death to survive, The Belko Experiment stands by far the most chilling portrayal of how American culture has become a lifestyle of overwork and drudgery. Of course that's all presented through the skewed lens of James Gunn's twisted brain, where corporate drones working in a Colombia-based office have to kill or be killed in order to please their faceless overlords. An extreme metaphor for the cutthroat white-collar office familiar to millions, it's also very fun to watch.

In a fair world, Rob Zombie's 31 would have been hailed as one of the last few genre films that used its meager budget to build a horrifying world where people are forced to fight for survival against a series of evil clowns. Zombie is in his element when he's creating weirdo, hybrid-horror films full of blood and bile, and 31 possesses both in spades. From the opening 16mm montage of the film, the audience is made aware no one on screen is going to make it out of the movie alive, and the only thing that's left to do is find out how they bite the dust.

What's not to love about a film where Japanese school children are forced to fight to the death for a three-day period until only one of them is left. Out of all the greatest films where people are forced to fight to the death, Battle Royale definitely stirred up the most controversy; there was a delayed DVD release because of a knife attack, people wrote op-eds about the themes, and the film has influenced every movie you love from the first Kill Bill to The Hunger Games. All of that aside, Battle Royale is simply a rad movie that you need to go watch right now.

There are movies where people race cars, and then there's Death Race 2000 - quite possibly the greatest movie to come out of Roger Corman's low-budget film empire. If you haven't seen the film and don't understand context clues, then here's the plot of the film: a group of weirdoes driving souped-up cars fight each other (and innocent bystanders) to the death in order to score a nebulous series of points while people watch on live TV. If you haven't seen it, Death Race 2000 will definitely become your new favorite B-movie.

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